Wednesday, 29 August, 2007 – 09:39
I desperately want to join in on forum threads and read up on the Internet about what I have just experienced this evening, but since I have not yet completed all the tasks in front of me, and I’m trying very, very hard to remain spoiler-free, I am simply avoiding all talk about it with [...]
Saturday, 18 August, 2007 – 07:13
Since I was out of town on business and busy with many other things over a period of a few weeks recently, I found that I had somehow managed to “unplug” a little bit, and haven’t been doing much in the way of playing games since then. It’s actually been rather nice to not be [...]
Sunday, 12 August, 2007 – 07:21
If you see a bottle of this monstrosity that is currently taking the name of Mountain Dew and and the name of Halo in vain, please don’t pick it up. Don’t do what I did and let your curiosity overtake your intuition when it informs you that a soda this bright an orange/red color cannot [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 15:02
Behold! A look at what Microsoft is clearly missing out on with their online service right now!
I used to be OK with the fact that I was paying $50 per year for online console gaming. It costs money to run that kind of infrastructure, and to design the services that are so cohesive on a [...]
Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 – 14:37
As I’m sure more of the Internet will soon discover, the pricing mistake mentioned earlier in this space that I had hoped to take advantage of is no more:
Dear Best Buy Customer,
Thank you for your recent Rock Band software order on BestBuy.com.
Unfortunately, our website incorrectly stated that the Rock Band accessories were included with your [...]
Tuesday, 7 August, 2007 – 13:05
Can anyone please clue me in on what I just watched here?
I’ve seen some weird Japanese video game advertisements in the past, but this one’s a touch beyond. A touch.
Monday, 6 August, 2007 – 21:45
For a couple of short hours this evening, the pre-order page for Rock Band on Best Buy’s Web site looked like this:
It’s clearly just someone who uploaded the wrong item description, and I highly doubt that they’re going to honor that $60 price (which is clearly for the standalone game and not for one with [...]
Monday, 6 August, 2007 – 08:21
I’m hoping that some kind of bizarre copyright lawsuit doesn’t bring this thing down, but for the time being, you too can experience gaming the way it once was in the day of monochrome displays and before modern graphics (or even ancient tile-based graphics systems really existed).
It looks a lot like this, updated with a [...]
Thursday, 2 August, 2007 – 21:44
I don’t think I could explain things any better than this video can.
An introduction to Faceball from Face Ball and Vimeo.
I’ve also added an article to my wiki for Faceball and am looking forward to hosting the eventual First Annual Markel Invitational Faceball Tournament.
Thursday, 5 July, 2007 – 20:52
To our Xbox Community:You’ve spoken, and we’ve heard you. Good service and a good customer experience are areas of the business that we care deeply about. And frankly, we’ve not been doing a good enough job.
Seriously, stop flooding our forums and our employees’ blogs with comments. Anyone with a pulse knows we’ve been providing horrible [...]
Wednesday, 13 June, 2007 – 11:50
Geeks who were around for the launch of Halo 2 and were paying close attention to the Internet around that time will have fond memories of ilovebees.com, which was far ahead of its time and a pioneering attempt at alternate reality gaming. Several groups have since tried to start up ARGs, only to have them [...]
Sunday, 29 April, 2007 – 00:56
Inspired by a thread at 360 Arcadians, I’ve decided that my Xbox 360 going in for repairs was the perfect time to begin attempting to clear out my game backlog (that is, the games I own that I have not yet finished). The entire backlog is listed below.
I began with Shadow of the Colossus, which [...]
Friday, 8 April, 2005 – 18:55
from MacRumors:
According to an anonymous report, Apple and ATI have been in talks about either creating or purchasing a Game Development unit.
The purpose of such a division would presumably be to create compelling games for the Mac platform to help attract more PC users to switch to the Mac platform.
Such a move would not be [...]
Monday, 27 September, 2004 – 09:21
I have played what is perhaps the most purely joyful video game ever created, and I must continue to play this game, or my life will become much more sad and lonely, and I will not feel like quite the same person. It’s almost like I would feel like less of a man if [...]
Thursday, 8 July, 2004 – 15:06
The Computer is your friend.
Other games are no fun. The Computer says so.
Trust the Computer!
To not trust the Computer would be treason.
You wouldn’t want to be a Commie Mutant Traitor, would you?
The Computer didn’t think so.
Thursday, 29 April, 2004 – 08:14
I’m a little in awe that this has happened, seeing as how it affects one of the greatest basic wargames I’ve ever played, one of the greatest board games ever devised, and something that had been pulled from mass production for while - a game I had never expected to see again in print.
I was [...]
Friday, 16 April, 2004 – 10:01
There’s an interesting development in the beta for World of Warcraft, which I think it pretty much the solution MMO’s need in order to not lose the interest of casual players (like myself).
It’s called the “rest state.”
Basically, what it does is that it gives those people who are not logged in for long stretches of [...]
Thursday, 1 April, 2004 – 19:27
Blizzard has saved me three applications that I would otherwise have had to buy a second time to install on my Mac:
Starcraft, Diablo II, an d Warcraft III all came on hybrid CD-ROMs - Mac versions included. And Blizzard even re-wrote the actual game applications for the games they made pre-OS X in a [...]
Tuesday, 27 January, 2004 – 00:20
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a wild melding of great gameplay and fine specimens of Engrish as Gunbound.
Thursday, 8 January, 2004 – 16:09
Bill Gates announced before his CES keynote that Microsoft plans on releasing some kind of expansion for the Xbox that would turn it into a DVR - and increase its set-top functionality.
Friday, 2 January, 2004 – 03:56
For those of my friends who are RPG freaks like me (and I know I have a few), here’s what I’m working on right now and where I’m at:
Kingdom Hearts
I’m currently in Agrabah, trying to figure out where to go after I’ve just landed. Wonderland was wicked cool and somewhat bizarre (the room was [...]
Tuesday, 23 December, 2003 – 15:22
Every now and again, I prefer to let people know what I’m playing on the video game side of things, which unfortunately has been turned away from the PC arena as of late, mostly because of money (I just couldn’t afford to play Galaxies anymore, not with the tooth work I have coming around the [...]